Doug Koplow is the founder of Earth Track in Cambridge, MA. He has worked on natural resource subsidy issues for nearly twenty years, mainly in the energy, water, and primary materials sectors. He is the author of Biofuels - At What Cost?, a detailed evaluation of state and federal subsidies to ethanol and biodiesel in the US. The analysis was conducted on behalf of the International Institute for Sustainable Development's Global Subsidies Initiative.
Mr. Koplow's subsidy work has involved collaboration with a variety of groups including the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Greenpeace, the Alliance to Save Energy, and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). He served as a member of UNEP's Working Group on Economic Instruments and Environmental Policy and the National Recycling Coalition's Policy Workgroup.
He created Earth Track's website (www.earthtrack.net) as a reference tool for researchers interested in environmentally harmful subsidies. The site provides information on complex subsidy mechanisms in manner accessible to general audiences, and consolidates information and analysis on subsidies to the energy and fisheries sectors. Resource areas covered will expand over time.
Mr. Koplow has also produced a range of work on other topics. These include the use of economic instruments in environmental policy, water and wastewater pricing, hazardous waste management, and brownfields privatization.
He holds an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and a BA in economics from Wesleyan University.
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